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2019/03/12

DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – March 12, 2019

— Coda’s nightmare

Coda stands for Child of Deaf Adults. This abbreviationhas become a word over the years. In a newspaper story,a Coda explained his nightmare – comments from friendssuch as dummy, how can you speak if your parents sign,do you interpret all tne time, do you always make noiseat home, and so on. Many codas deal with it; manydon’t.

— big publicity for nothing

British Airways announced that they were doing acommercial involving deaf 12-year old femaletwins. The British deaf community was excitedabout it. The commercial taping only took20 minutes. But when the commercial aired onTV, the twins were missing, thus disappointingthe TV viewers. This is how it works in theindustry – that not everything that gets tapedgets shown!

— deaf food stand owner and impatient customers

There are deaf owners of food stands. They createspecial menus where hearing customers could justpoint to the dishes they want. Very helpful?Not always! One deaf chef said there are alwayssome impatient customers that just want tovoice out their orders instead of pointing todishes on the menu. It is a big shame.